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Within this thread we have discussed the Corn Mill on Bridge Street and how it was powered by an undershot water wheel using water taken from the Goyt River and the put back into the same river but lower down: a magnificent piece of engineering and ingenuity by the Victorians.
The deed of easement for taking the water through the path it took and could still take was signed on the 1st June, 1780. Over a hundred years later Councillor Williamson said that Whaley Bridge Council were foolish not to take up those water rights; he may have been correct I really don’t know.
After the demise of the Corn Mill (aka Whaley Mill) the building lay in ruins apart from a public house there called the Old Tankard. Eventually the roof collapsed and the whole of the buildings had to be demolished and the houses that are now there were built in about 1913.
But in between the Whaley Mill must have become a Wire Mill.
WIRE WORKS
D.R.O. D2825Z/5/1 Wire Mill, Whaley Bridge.
Conveyance by Revd Peter Legh of Lyme, Cheshire, cleric and James Hilton, Lord of Bodlondel, Caernarvons, esq., trustees under the will of Thomas Peter Legh of Lyme, esquire to Edmund Buckley of Manchester Esq., trustees conveying the Wire Mill, houses and garden in Whaley, parish of Taxal, Cheshire (Whaley now in Derbyshire), previously occupied by Ramsden, Camm & Co., and now occupied by Messrs Barnes and Braddock, and Thomas Legh conveying remainder of term of lease for 500 years of 1 June 1780, Robert Bennett of Mosley, Lancs, baker, leasing to Peter Legh of Lyme, esquire for £2 2s yearly, right to use watercourse through Bennett’s Close, Goose High Warth, and dam across River Goyt between Goose High Warth and Saunders Croft also belonging to Bennett, to supply mill. Consideration £1550. George Carr Glyn Boyce Combe and Robert Saunders esquire, trustees of Globe Insurance Office, Cornhill, London, only holders of charges on Legh’s estate, promise not to make any claim on the property in respect of a mortgage to them by Thomas Legh of his estate in the sum of £46,122 12s 6d. 5 September 1853.
1841 CENSUS Y c W
Henry Byrne wire manufacturer 35 N
John Ollerhead wire drawer 40 N
John Etchells wire drawer 45 Y
Robert Littlewood iron wire drawer 50 N
William Littlewood iron wire drawer 25 N
Joseph Edwards wire drawer 40 N
John Littlewood iron moulder 20 N
Joseph Hart wire drawer 30 N
1845 TITHE COMMUTATION ROLL
Owner: Thomas Legh Esq., Occupier: Henry Bums
Wire Mill, yard and garden. No 360.
(The Old Corn Mill, Bridge Street.)
It looks like the occupier of the Wire Mill in 1845 had an unfortunate surname unless his writing let him down on the census form and he was actually called Henry Burns. But who knows?
R. S-S.
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